Posted: Apr 12, 2021 / 11:30 AM MDTUpdated: Apr 12, 2021 / 11:30 AM MDTDUCHESNE, Utah (ABC4) – Sam Hoopes had always been a great athlete.Standing 6-foot-5 with an athletic frame, Hoopes was recruited by universities like Stanford, Oregon, and Washington to play football. Ultimately, the former Duchesne High School star choose to play basketball at Southern Utah.After college, Hoopes moved back to his small town and began working as a high school counselor and basketball coach at Duchesne. He continued to live an active lifestyle – until he got sick. Diagnosed with primary sclerosing...…Posted: Apr 12, 2021 / 11:30 AM MDTUpdated: Apr 12, 2021 / 11:30 AM MDTDUCHESNE, Utah (ABC4) – Sam Hoopes had always been a great athlete.Standing 6-foot-5 with an athletic frame, Hoopes was recruited by universities like Stanford, Oregon, and Washington to play football. Ultimately, the former Duchesne High School star choose to play basketball at Southern Utah.After college, Hoopes moved back to his small town and began working as a high school counselor and basketball coach at Duchesne. He continued to live an active lifestyle – until he got sick. Diagnosed with primary sclerosing...WW…

Posted: Apr 8, 2021 / 05:45 PM MDTUpdated: Apr 15, 2021 / 02:10 PM MDTSALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) – A recent cargo airplane flight from North Carolina to Salt Lake City carried an especially unique delivery addressed to Utah’s Hogle Zoo.En tow on the plane was the zoo’s newest resident, a 15-year-old polar bear named Nikita, accompanied by a crew of handlers from the Salt Lake City-based zoo and headed to his new home.Nikita, who had been at the North Carolina Zoo since 2016, had been reassigned, so to speak, to live at Hogle after a few years of failing to breed with the female polar bear he...…Posted: Apr 8, 2021 / 05:45 PM MDTUpdated: Apr 15, 2021 / 02:10 PM MDTSALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) – A recent cargo airplane flight from North Carolina to Salt Lake City carried an especially unique delivery addressed to Utah’s Hogle Zoo.En tow on the plane was the zoo’s newest resident, a 15-year-old polar bear named Nikita, accompanied by a crew of handlers from the Salt Lake City-based zoo and headed to his new home.Nikita, who had been at the North Carolina Zoo since 2016, had been reassigned, so to speak, to live at Hogle after a few years of failing to breed with the female polar bear he...WW…